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  2. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [10] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.

  3. Figured bass - Wikipedia

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    A part notated with figured bass consists of a bass line notated with notes on a musical staff plus added numbers and accidentals (or in some cases (back)slashes added to a number) beneath the staff to indicate what intervals above the bass notes should be played, and therefore which inversions of which chords are to be played.

  4. Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia

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    Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.

  5. Dress Codes: Why Santa Claus wears a red and white suit - AOL

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    Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. Red velvet ...

  6. 19-Year-Old Woman 'Repeatedly Assaulted' at Home by Other ...

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    Police in Ohio are searching for suspects after a 19-year-old woman was stripped of her clothes and attacked last month.. The Akron Police Department in Ohio told PEOPLE in a statement that ...

  7. Mobility tax, other fees to prop up flailing MTA even after ...

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    Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering hiking a dreaded tax on businesses to prop up the flailing Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a scramble to fill a whopping $33-billion budget hole, sources ...

  8. Sun of May - Wikipedia

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    Sun of May on the first Argentine coin, 1813. According to Diego Abad de Santillán, the Sun of May represents Inti, the Incan god of the sun. [1]The specification "of May" is a reference to the May Revolution which took place in the week from 18 to 25 May 1810, which marked the beginning of the independence from the Spanish Empire for the countries that were then part of the Viceroyalty of ...

  9. Social media star documents Tiptoe the 175-pound tortoise's ...

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    Tiptoe, a 175-pound tortoise famous on social media, and his owner documented fleeing the Palisades Fire on Tuesday.